Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Katar, part 31: the pri…

Lol, who were the six clowns who mocked him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: six clowns · What happens: be, mock · To what, where: six clowns, him

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1847 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Katar, part 31: the prince proves he is the husband, then reveals he is the King's son» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 clowns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 clowns	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clowns	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clowns	det
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 clowns	nummod
7	clowns	clown	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 mocked	nsubj
9	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clowns	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mocked	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 clowns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the six clowns					tree rules
2	mock	past	the six clowns	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Six jokers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 jokers	nummod
2	jokers	joker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His six brothers-in-law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 law	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 in	punct
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brothers	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Six cousins from the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cousins	nummod
2	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cousins	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Clowns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clowns	clown	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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